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Confronting plastic pollution to protect environmental and public health
Summary
This collection of expert commentaries assessed critical challenges in microplastic science and policy, covering detection methods, toxicological dose-response relationships, risk assessment frameworks, and the gap between scientific evidence and regulatory action, concluding that urgent method standardization is needed.
A new collection of evidence-based commentaries explores critical challenges facing scientists and policymakers working to address the potential environmental and health harms of microplastics. The commentaries reveal a pressing need to develop robust methods to detect, evaluate, and mitigate the impacts of this emerging contaminant, most recently found in human placentas.